Abacus.AI on September 10, 2026, introduced the Smaug line, three open-weight language models fine-tuned for enterprise agentic workloads: Smaug Agentic, Smaug Flash, and Smaug Mini. All three are available for download on Hugging Face and can also be used through the company’s RouteLLM API. The models were introduced across Abacus.AI’s enterprise agentic AI platform and…
Cohere released North Small Translate on September 10, 2026, an open-weight mixture-of-experts machine translation model with 218 billion total parameters and 25 billion active parameters, licensed for research and non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0. Cohere described North Small Translate as its first translation model in the North model family, building on a multilingual and…
OpenAI on September 10, 2026 introduced a new Data agent in ChatGPT Work, a plugin the company says connects to approved company data sources, investigates what changed in business metrics, and builds interactive dashboards employees can share. The company framed the agent around everyday business questions such as why sales slowed, where spending is rising,…
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs announced a multi-year licensing agreement and wider strategic collaboration on September 10, 2026, beginning with a new licensed AI music creation platform that will let fans create remixes, mashups, and new interpretations of tracks from participating artists. The agreement, announced in a release datelined Santa Monica, California, and New York,…
MLOps is the engineering and governance discipline for reproducibly building, deploying, observing, and updating machine-learning systems in production. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have begun collaboration on a Know-Your-Agent (KYA) interoperability framework for agentic commerce, the companies announced on September 10, 2026, citing a projection that by 2030 AI agents will orchestrate US$3 trillion to US$5 trillion of global consumer commerce. The framework is designed to help card networks, digital wallet ecosystems, agent…
Four years into generative AI, and almost no company has standardized its use of the technology. Most companies are still experimenting and figuring out what works for their business, convinced everyone else has this more figured out than they do. Meanwhile, the business isn’t waiting. PagerDuty’s 2026 Shadow AI Survey reveals that two-thirds (66%) of…
IBM and NASA on September 10, 2026 announced the open-source release of the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, a multimodal, multi-resolution foundation model for lunar remote sensing, alongside SomBench, the co-registered lunar dataset built to train it. In the announcement, dated from Yorktown Heights, New York, IBM described the system as one of the first publicly…
Ayar Labs announced on September 10, 2026, that it has secured an additional $150 million in funding, bringing the co-packaged optics (CPO) company’s total primary capital raised in 2026 to $650 million. The company said the new capital will support its continued transition to high-volume manufacturing, including investments in product development, validation, and scaling the…
CoreWeave announced on September 10, 2026 the launch of Physical AI Field Engineering, an offering that pairs customer teams with the cloud provider’s domain specialists to build, validate, and deploy AI across the full engineering lifecycle, from research and development through in-field operations. The announcement, datelined Livingston, New Jersey, said the service is built on…